Oracle Audit Vault Reviews

Database Management Manager at a financial services firm

Feb 26 2017

What is most valuable?

The following features of the product provide additional benefits for the user: * If it's from an Oracle family, we can get quick support from Oracle support. * Reporting screens are more useful, we can get many summary reports very quickly.... more»

How has it helped my organization?

Before this product was used in the company, the tables with some critical presets were checked with the triggers on them. The old and new versions of the changing records were written to another table. These triggers caused the database... more»

What needs improvement?

We were using Audit Vault 10.3 before and could not migrate to the new version (AVDF 12.1 and 12.2) (because Oracle support said it was not possible) and we continued to get old Audit Vault databases when we needed old audit records, and we... more»

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AmmarAshraf

Oracle Technical Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Jan 29 2017

What is most valuable?

The two most valuable features of this product are: * Database access control * Auditing of users First of all, it is very easy to configure users and their appropriate roles and permissions on a database. The product allows us to set rules... more»

How has it helped my organization?

Information technology outsourcing: Audit Vault and Database Firewall has helped us in many ways; specifically, to restrict and control access to data. It also has helped us identify/recover from many accidental transactions. The product has... more»

What needs improvement?

According to Oracle, the best practice is that Audit Vault Server and DB Firewall should be deployed on different boxes (servers). There is no option to co-locate them together. If you wish to deploy AV server and Database Firewall, you will... more»

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Subhash Kasundra

Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Jan 29 2017

What is most valuable?

Reports and alerts are most valuable to us. Management wanted complete traceability of non-DBAs accessing databases using a database power user account. With the help of Audit Vault custom alerts, we were able to control this with 100%... more»

How has it helped my organization?

Some major improvements in organizational operations: * Our organization has a complete alert and control mechanism to identify unauthorized access of PROD databases. * Compliance with United States government security and audit standards. *... more»

What needs improvement?

Large scope of improvements: * A method to group targets (databases generating audit files) logically is missing; for example, PROD, QA, UAT & DEV targets. * An alert mechanism based on logical grouping is missing. * A simplified graphic... more»

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Ngeno Gabriel

IT Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Feb 08 2017

What is most valuable?

Oracle Database Firewall, Database Vault and Data hiding tools present a layered security approach to protecting, controlling, auditing and hiding sensitive data and access to sensitive data. The following key features make this product a... more»

How has it helped my organization?

Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall expands protection beyond Oracle and third party databases with support for auditing the operating system, directories and custom sources. Our client needed a product which can provide a holistic... more»

What needs improvement?

Although Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall serves as a critical detective and preventive control to protect against the abuse of legitimate access to databases responsible for almost all data breaches and cyber attacks, using Database... more»

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Kunal Verma

Sr. Lead Consultant - Database at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

Nov 17 2016

What is most valuable?

The most valuable features of this product are auditing the old and new values after each change in the database, REDO_COLL and capturing application context functionalities. REDO_COLL is a function provided by Oracle Audit Vault where the... more»

How has it helped my organization?

Auditing as an imperative function of any Enterprise company. We require the audit logs for compliance needs and for tighter control of the infrastructure. Being in the Health Insurance industry and handling PHI & PII data, there are... more»

What needs improvement?

The price factor makes it “out of reach" for small players in the IT industry. Even the SaaS model is very expensive. SaaS is an alternative hosting model where Oracle hosts the audit vault in their data center and installs audit collection... more»

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What is Oracle Audit Vault?

Oracle Audit Vault monitors Oracle and non-Oracle database traffic to detect and block threats, as well as improves compliance reporting by consolidating audit data from databases, operating systems, directories, and other sources.

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Audit Vault

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Abu Dhabi Department of Finance, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health, Educational Testing Service, Ryohin Keikaku Co. Ltd., SPC Brasil, REDISA, Qatar Olympic Committee, Seneca College, Hunan Social Insurance Management and Service Bureau,